Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-03-04
Personal.

Mr.. Allen Donnan and bride, Qate Miss
Talrnage of Brooklyn,l were on the q. 4
q. train which arrived here from The
| West Saturday afternoon. on their way
home from their wedding trip South. They
| were in the Pullman car, and passengers
who had travelled this far with them, all
agreed that it was the happiest looking
couple they had ever seen.
Miss Zada Carroll. daughter of John W.
Carroll. Esq. PRESIDENT of the Lynchburg
City Council, and her friend. Miss Annie
Green of that city, have been spending the
week with relatives in Stanton
Mrs. Elijah Koiner of Augusta, is visit
ing her father Mr.. Thomas Read of New
Market, who is critically i'll.
Rev. Samuel j. Baird of Ronceverte, W.
Va, passed through here Saturday on his
way to Richmond for medical treatmen5.
Mr.. r. S. Turk, Commonwealth g At
torney of Pocahontas county, w. Va,
and Wm Turk Of Wilmington, N. t., ar
rived last week on their way to visit their
father, Col. Rudolph Turk of this county,
who has been quite ill.
The section of Dental and Oral Surgery
of the Ninth International Medical Con-
gress to meet at Washington City, has pre-
sented the name of DIR. James Johnston
of Stanton to the Executive Commit
I tee of the Congress, ''as one Of those who
should receive special invitation to be-
j come a member of the Congress and take
part in its proceedings"
Gen. T. L.. Rosser, the General Mana
ger of the Hale Pavement Company, was
in the city this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. McHenry Holiday have
arrived home from their wedding tour.
Mr.. Simon Hllb for half a century a
merchant in this county and city and a
general favorite with all, leaves this week
to make his future home in Baltimore.
Mr.. Hilb was Lieutenant in the Mexican
war.
Mr.. Payne Thompson, so long with
Hunter & Co., left yesterday to take a
clerkship with Mr.. c. W. Hunter, who
has opened bookstore on Broad street,
in Richmond.
Mr.. s. Brad Lara, who has been very ill
with pneumonia, is recovering.
Maj. Thomas Shumate and Mr.. Benz.
Wightman of Iowa, are on prospecting
tour In Augusta county. Mr.. Wightman
is the manager Of the two largest coal
mines in Iowa and Illinois.
Col. J. Lewis Peyt ton of this city, is en-
gagged upon an historical work to be enti-
tied History of Virginia from the retro
cession of Alexandria to the reconstruct
tion of the Union.''
At the last Quarterly Conference at
Harrisonburg Station, resolution was
adopted referring to the good work accom-
plished by Presiding Elder J. c. Dice, and
asking a blessing on him in the new field
to which he may be sent.
Mr.. Ed. Burke of Staunton was in Romeo
verte, last week, to buy Greenbrier horses.
Misses Eva Hite of Baltimore, May
Shelton Of Ferroll, Laura Harnesberger of
Barterbrook, and Belle and Fannie Chris
tian of Swoope's Depot, who have been WIS.,
iting Mrs. Logan Turner of this city, left
on Wednesday evening for their homes.
Henry, the fve-year- old son of Prof. II.
A. Bear. Of the D., D. & B Institution,
fell from the third down to the first story
OF his fathers new hotel at Elkton, Mon
day, and remarkable to say, escaped with
out bone broken.
Rev. W. G. Hullihen filled the pulpit of
the Episcopal church at Lexington, last
Sunday.